‘We’re Not Asking For A Handout, Just Asking For Some Help’: Tom Colicchio On Aid For Restaurants

We know small businesses need help right now, especially in the restaurant industry. Founder of Crafted Hospitality and the head judge on Bravo’s “Top Chef,” Tom Colicchio joins Stephanie Ruhle to explain if there’s a more targeted way to help them. Aired on 11/17/2020.
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‘We're Not Asking For A Handout, Just Asking For Some Help’: Tom Colicchio On Aid For Restaurants

35 comments

  1. People need money.Both parties should be able to make a decision on how much.Come up with a amount and work from there.stay safe.😷✌

    1. @Ryan Its about time you do this FACT Check on your own. = States & Cities with the highest rates of Homelessness & Poverty. States with the Highest Tax’s.

      Atlanta, Detroit, Oakland, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago,

      find out what political party has controlled these places for a long long time.

      Then tell me why the party of the people has FAILED to make any noticeable improvements to any one of these places over the past 40 years they have run them.

      Truth has NO race or Nationalism to attach itself to and it stands on its own.

      This black man knows better than to believe a democrat or take then on there spoken word! That TRUST must be earned with Truth & Transparency nothing less from either political party from now on till the end of time.

    2. @Ryan I strongly suggest that you take 2 hours to watch a movie called – Hillary’s America. The Secret History of the Democrat Party. It could be enlightening to view. I made all 3 of my children watch it to learn the Truth.

    3. @wiremantw Freedom & Liberty Forever Documentaries are not required to show anything more than one side of an issue, and they are not even required to be factual at all. A documentary can be created by a political party as a propaganda vehicle, and often is, so documentary is a very suspect way to educate anyone. It is certainly no guarantee that you are getting anything more than you would get from a political party’s website. In fact, it’s a convenient way for a political party to distance themselves from an outrageous claim they want to promote. Your best bet is to pay attention to what is happening in a specific place while it is happening in a particular city so that you can understand what is actually going on in real time. What I can tell you about Milwaukee, is that very soon after Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers who were striking in the 80’s, unions everywhere were weakened and a lot of black folks who worked for the Milwaukee Road, AO Smith, and other industrial businesses in Milwaukee found themselves out of work. A very similar story played out in Detroit.

    4. @Ryan Well you are entitled to your own opinion and nothing would be stopping you from FACT checking any part of the information in the documentary if you so felt inclined to verify it or question its accuracy. I sent more time doing that than the time it took to learn the truth watching that documentary.
      I wasn’t able to uncover any miss representation of the history in it or the things it covered. Not 1 lie or deception just the people of the parties policies and actions over time.
      My point is Democrats DON’T solve social problems they CREATE them!
      They don’t fix anything they make it worse for all.
      Just name that 1 Democrat controlled State with its shiny example city of prosperity & no tents on the sidewalks down town!
      Help me find it please.
      Everyone needs to look in the mirror first then refrain from JUDGING others period.

    5. @wiremantw Freedom & Liberty Forever FACT Barrack Obama inherited an economy on the brink of collapse. Unemployment dropped dramatically, the stock market soared. Bill Clinton inherited a poorly performing economy and turned that around to record employment. The truth is that federal policies effect the states based on the industry there. Wisconsin had a republican governor for the previous 8 years he sold us out to Foxconn. No tax for them, no jobs for us. We can go back and forth on this forever. I’m not a supporter of Democrats in general. My issue isn’t even necessarily with Republicans as a brand. Trump is the worst. He’s not even a real president. The Republicans in the senate are worthless as well. You’ll never hear me side with Hillary either. Biden seems moderate and professional enough to be helpful.

    1. Many families in my neighborhood have been patronizing local restaurants in order to help them out. But yeah, if money is tight…or you’re concerned about your job, spending money at restaurants is not in the budget.

  2. republican solution to this problem = Be less poor.
    republican solution to all problems = Shut up and oh yeah, be less poor.

  3. Sorry the money has gone to the top 1% , Trump has determined that they are struggling and need some more money as the massive tax breaks for them was not enough .

  4. The holdup to ALL stimulus and rescue plans is Mitch McConnell, who spent the last few months denying any legislation even a hearing in committee and pushed only judicial appointments and emergency funding provisions to disaster-struck areas. And despite him being the sole barrier to much of the rescue acts passed by the House with bipartisan support, he suffered little if any political repercussions as a result; he got re-elected to his Senate seat (mostly from a botched pro-Trump Democratic competitor, but partially because of the WH grift his wife stole for KY), he never got challenged for his Majority Leader seat, and the media (especially right-wing disinformation sites) shifted the blame from McConnell to Pesoli and the House Democrats on the mistaken belief that a compromise for a lesser amount or a piecemeal deal would be better than fighting for the whole pie.

  5. Why would Mitch McConnell worry about anyone? Trump doesn’t care and Mitch just won re-election. They have nothing to lose.

  6. We pay taxes specifically for the government to help us. Why can’t people get that through their thicc skulls

  7. SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN FOR THE 2-3 WEEKS IT TAKE TO GET RID OF THIS AND WE WOULDNT BE 11 MONTHS IN DEBT AS INDIVIDUALS EITHER!

  8. Dear Tom Colicchio, make no mistake, Mitch McConnel said “Let the States go Bankrupt” He doesn’t care, as long as he can steal from the American people via dark money interests in his pockets! Your children are back in School likely because you have the money for a private school where they are paid well to make sure your kids won’t get sick! Try being the customer who could never even afford to go to one of your Restaurants under the best of conditions, we can’t afford to drive-through Burger King right now if we want to be able to help educate our kids if we want to be able to feed our children adding on our pets who are family! The struggle is real we get it, please try telling the #CorruptGOP yourself as they couldn’t care less what We…”The” People need!

  9. The bill was passed in the Congress, but Senate McConnell will not bring it to the floor for a vote. McConnell do really care about the American people,the people need help in this crisis.

  10. Went to a burger stand once in eight months. People are not going out any way. Everyone needs help. We cannot save every business, but we can put money in the hands of the people.

    1. Yup! It’s time for America to wake-up to the cold reality some people are going to lose in this Pandemic.

  11. I FIND THIS DOWN RIGHT OFFENSIVE!
    People can barely buy groceries, keep lights on, pay rent, how does that compare to keeping restaurants open?

    1. Restaurant owners and workers can barely buy groceries, keep lights on, pay rent, etc. They’re the same people. Watch the video.

  12. I own bars and restaurants and there aren’t very many people dining in. My state is back to take-out only, but most restaurants are screwed either way because of covid. It sucks.

  13. Start calling McConnell’s office … he’s the one sitting on the legislation. Self-appointed Emperor of the US.

    1. True. Moscow Mitch has proved that TERM LIMITS should be mandatory. Moscow Mitch has been the one in charge and the appointments to the Supreme Court are evidence of that.

  14. Sorry, Chef! But the government officials only care about businesses in which They Have stock in. They get bailouts in minutes while essential workers get the fist 😡😡

  15. I wish the United States was a rich country that could afford to take care of its own people during the worst crisis in our history but I guess we need to own weapons, oil and pharmaceuticals before we get any help from these crooks in DC.

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